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alt_penelope) wrote2012-02-06 08:26 pm
alt_penelope) wrote2012-02-06 08:26 pm
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Private Message to Percy Weasley
I know how busy Mr Malfoy's been keeping you but please, please say you're going to be able to make it to Hogsmeade on Saturday? I might have to commit some serious dark arts if I don't get a chance to see you.
Only joking. Mostly.
It's Avery, mainly--and all those 4th-year girls! Honestly, I don't remember another class being broadsided by their hormones quite as badly as this lot. But at least the 1st-years have given up their bullying for the time being, and that's a small mercy.
And I'm sure I've been revising way, way too much to be healthy. There's no help for it, though, since I keep falling asleep over the books if I try to read in the dormitory. And my father sent me a stern owl about my marks at the end of last term. So.
To make matters worse, poor Professor Siz has just been having a terrible time, too. I'm sure you heard all about what happened during the CCF exercise last week? I guess someone's not too happy because she's had to answer all sorts of questions and she's even gone down to New London to tackle the fallout. It's really too bad; she tries hard to make the programme run so well.
Between all that and the weather it's just been hard to be anything but glum. So I really hope you don't have to cancel again. Though if you do, I suppose I shan't throw myself off the Astronomy Tower or anything dire.
Just miss you that much more. I wish it were NEWTs week already and I could just have it all done and over with!
Only joking. Mostly.
It's Avery, mainly--and all those 4th-year girls! Honestly, I don't remember another class being broadsided by their hormones quite as badly as this lot. But at least the 1st-years have given up their bullying for the time being, and that's a small mercy.
And I'm sure I've been revising way, way too much to be healthy. There's no help for it, though, since I keep falling asleep over the books if I try to read in the dormitory. And my father sent me a stern owl about my marks at the end of last term. So.
To make matters worse, poor Professor Siz has just been having a terrible time, too. I'm sure you heard all about what happened during the CCF exercise last week? I guess someone's not too happy because she's had to answer all sorts of questions and she's even gone down to New London to tackle the fallout. It's really too bad; she tries hard to make the programme run so well.
Between all that and the weather it's just been hard to be anything but glum. So I really hope you don't have to cancel again. Though if you do, I suppose I shan't throw myself off the Astronomy Tower or anything dire.
Just miss you that much more. I wish it were NEWTs week already and I could just have it all done and over with!
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Oh, how I remember that feeling, that the year was telescoping longer and longer in a blizzard of responsibilities and that NEWTs would never come. They'll come, trust me. Sooner than you would like. February always feels gloomy and dire, but you'll survive this. Even considering Avery and the rest of his ilk.
I did hear rumours about...well, not a fiasco last weekend, exactly. Just that things didn't go as planned. I am sorry for Professor Sinistra; I always quite liked her. She certainly knows her stuff, and Merlin knows she's worked like a house elf to make the CCF/YPL programmes a success. I hope that whatever questioning they do is pro forma, and they realise that really, she wasn't at fault.
Work's been keeping me almost too busy to breathe. I am guiltily aware that I've been neglecting you, but believe me, you've been in my thoughts every day, even if my owls are less frequent.
Never mind. We'll make up for it all this weekend.